During the last week Chandra completed the observing schedule as
planned.

A Chandra media telecon was held on June 21 describing observations of
the galactic black hole system GRO J1655-40 that show for the first
time that powerful magnetic fields are the key to understanding how
energy is released from the regions surrounding these ubiquitous
objects. For details see:
http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/06_releases/press_062106.html

A second press release was issued on June 20 describing studies of the
jet in the quasar 3C273 that show that the most energetic radiation
from the jet arises through direct radiation from extremely energetic
particles (synchrotron radiation) rather than via the scattering of
microwave background photons (inverse Compton radiation). For details
see: http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/06_releases/press_062006.html

Also of note last week was the Cycle 8 Peer Review that was held
in Boston.

The schedule of targets for next week is shown below and includes
observations of M81 and IRAS 19132+1035 coordinated with the VLA.